Helen Mason (physicist)
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Helen Mason | |
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| Born | Helen Elizabeth Mason |
| Alma mater | Queen Mary University of London University of London[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge |
| Website | www |
Helen Elizabeth Mason OBE is a British theoretical physicist at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. She holds a Personal Readership in Solar Physics.[2] Helen Mason has been involved in many solar space projects such as Skylab, Yohkoh and the Solar Maximum Mission. She has been working as a co-investigator of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory project launched in 1995, and more recently on Hinode and the Solar Dynamics Observatory. She is a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.[3]
Helen Mason has contributed to a number of outreach projects in collaboration with the Millennium Mathematics Project and is currently leading the Sun|Trek project, an educational resource for teachers and students about the Sun and its effect on the Earth.[4] She has worked with school students in South Africa and India. She has given many talks to schools, astronomy societies and to the public. In 2013, she gave a Friday Evening Discourse on 'Our Dynamic Sun' at the Royal Institution.
